Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/9


 * 1292 - Sheikh Saadi, Persian Sufi poet died
 * 1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet died
 * 1608 - John Milton, English poet born
 * 1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer died
 * 1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer died
 * 1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet born
 * 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author born
 * 1901 - Ödön von Horváthh, Hungarian-born writer born
 * 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer born
 * 1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr, American author born
 * 1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer born
 * 1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher died
 * 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic died
 * 1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author died
 * 2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author died